RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

3 But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb,
which he had bought and nourished: and it grew up
together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his
own food, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his
bosom, and was to him as a daughter.
4 And there came a traveler to the rich man, and he
spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to
dress for the traveling man that had come to him; but took
the poor man's lamb, and prepared it for the man that had
come to him.
5 And Dawid's anger was greatly lit against the man; and
he said to Natan, As vuvh lives, the man that has done this
thing shall surely die:
6 And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did
this thing, and because he had no rachamim.
7 And Natan said to Dawid, You are the man. This says
vuvh Elohim of Yisrael, I anointed you melech over
Yisrael, and I delivered you out of the hand of Shaul;
8 And I gave you your master's bayit, and your master's
wives into your bosom, and gave you Beit Yisrael and
Beit Yahudah; 827 and if that had been too little, I would
moreover have given to you much more.
9 Why have you despised the commandment of vuvh, to
do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriyah the Hittite
with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife,
and have slain him with the sword of the children of
Ammon.
10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your
bayit; because you have despised Me, and have taken the
wife of Uriyah the Hittite to be your wife.
11 This says vuvh, See, I will raise up evil against you out
of your own bayit, and I will take your wives before your
eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie
with your wives publicly in the sight of the sun.
12 For you did it secretly: but I will do this thing before
kol Yisrael, and before the sun.
13 And Dawid said to Natan, I have sinned against vuvh.
And Natan said to Dawid, vuvh has put away your sin;
you shall not die.
14 However, because by this deed you have given great
occasion to the enemies of vuvh to blaspheme, the child
also that is born to you shall surely die.
15 And Natan departed to his bayit. And vuvh struck the
child that Uriyah's wife bore to Dawid, and it was very
sick.
16 Dawid therefore besought Elohim for the child; and
Dawid fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the
earth.
17 And the zechanim of his bayit arose, and went to him,
to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither
did he eat lechem with them.
18 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child
died. And the avadim of Dawid feared to tell him that the
child was dead: for they said, See, while the child was yet
alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to our
voice: how will he then react, if we tell him that the child
is dead?
19 But when Dawid saw that his avadim whispered,
Dawid perceived that the child was dead: therefore Dawid
said to his avadim, Is the child dead? And they said, He is
dead.
20 Then Dawid arose from the earth, and washed, and
anointed himself, and changed his clothes, and came into
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the Bayit of vuvh, and worshipped: then he came to his
own bayit; and when he asked, they set food before him,
and he did eat.
21 Then said his avadim to him, What thing is this that
you have done? You did fast and weep for the child,
while he was alive; but when the child was dead, you did
rise and eat food.
22 And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and
wept: for I said, Who can tell whether Elohim will grant
me unmerited favor that the child may live?
23 But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring
him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return
to me. 828
24 And Dawid comforted Bat-Sheva his wife, and went in
to her, and lay with her: and she bore a son, and he called
his name Shlomo: and vuvh loved him.
25 And he sent by the hand of Natan the navi; and he
called his name Yedidyah, because of vuvh.
26 And Yoav fought against Ravah of the children of
Ammon, and took the royal city.
27 And Yoav sent messengers to Dawid, and said, I have
fought against Ravah, and have taken the city of Mayim.
28 Now therefore gather the rest of the people together,
and encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the
city, and it be called after my name.
29 And Dawid gathered all the people together, and went
to Ravah, and fought against it, and took it.
30 And he took their melech's keter from off his head, the
weight of it was a talent of gold with the precious stones:
and it was set on Dawid's head. And he brought forth the
spoil of the city in great abundance.
31 And he brought forth the people that were there, and
put them under saws, and under instruments of iron, and
under axes of iron, and made them pass through the
brickworks: and so he did to all the cities of the children
of Ammon. So Dawid and all the people returned to
Yahrushalayim.
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And it came to pass after this, that Avshalom the son
of Dawid had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar;
and Amnon the son of Dawid loved her.
2 And Amnon was so troubled, that he became sick for
his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and Amnon thought
it improper for him to do anything to her.
3 But Amnon had a chaver, whose name was Yonadah,
the son of Shimeah Dawid's brother: and Yonadah was a
very wise man.
4 And he said to him, Why are you, being the melech's
son, becoming thinner from day to day? Will you not tell
me? And Amnon said to him, I love Tamar, my brother
Avshalom's sister.
5 And Yonadah said to him, Lay down on your bed, and
make yourself sick: and when your abba comes to see
you, say to him, I ask you, let my sister Tamar come, and
give me food, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may
see it, and eat it from her hand.
6 So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when
the melech had come to see him, Amnon said to the
melech, I ask you, let Tamar my sister come, and make
me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her
hand.
7 Then Dawid sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to
your brother Amnon's bayit, and make him food.